Lucas Trouble

Lucas Trouble is a French multi-disciplinary musician who has released over 300 records in the past thirty years under a variety of guises including The Gitanes, Jerking Idols, The Mystic Riders From Spectral South, Temple Gates, and Vietnam Veterans. His earliest recorded work dates to 1978, and his close friendship with Philippe Fichot of Die Form, which began in the early to mid 1970s, is audible throughout the minimal synth recordings collected here: the influence of early Ptose and Die Form's Bain Total-era recordings is a direct thread. His Le Roy Defigure LP was released on Invisible Records in 1981 and immediately became a sought-after item; the cassettes Théâtre Cruel/Euphoric Pubelle (1980) and Kaiserthon Suite: Music for Anormal Movies and Sonic Lous (1982) were issued in editions so limited that tracking them down is now effectively impossible.

This double LP (VOD98), In A Fit Of Delirium: 1979–82, collects the full arc of Trouble's purely minimal and synth-based recordings: one side of early and previously unreleased recordings from 1978 to 1979, one side from Le Roy Defigure, and a full disc of material from the two ultra-rare cassettes. Boomkat described the assembled work as "eerily enticing," "dryly psychedelic and almost cinematic," "seeming to perilously teeter on the brink of some kind of paranoid breakdown." A document from the deeper underground of French experimental music, and an essential companion to the Ptose and Die Form releases in any serious collection of the period.